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Paolo Magaudda

Hello, I’m an Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Padova University, Dept. FISPPA, where i teach “Technology and Society” and “Sociology of Consumption” and I am affiliated with the research unit PaSTIS, which I co-founded in 2008.  At UniPD, in 2025, I assumed the role of Director of the PhD programme in Social Sciences.

My research interests encompass a diverse array of phenomena pertaining to the nexus of technology, culture and society. I have a particular interest in the role of digital media in society, the intersection between consumer culture and technological modernity,  the role of popular culture in understanding science and technology in society (including public engagement and open science), the relationship between music and technology, and most recently innovation processes in the cycling sector.  My main academic fields are science and technology studies, media studies, cultural sociology, consumer studies, cultural studies and sound studies.

In 2010 I founded the journal “Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies”, which I co-edited for eleven years, until 2021. I have been also Co-editor-in-chief of “Studi Culturali”, the leading Italian scientific journal on the social study of culture, during 6 years, from 2019 to 2024. Currently, i’m also a member of the boards of “Sociologica” and “Dancecult“. I partecipated from the beginning to the activities of STS Italia, the Italian Society for the Social Study of Science & Technology, which brings together more than a hundred Italian STS scholars, for which I have been in the directors’ board from 2013 to 2018.

I have published more than 150 book chapters and refereed articles in many journals, including “Journal of Consumer Culture”, “Science as Culture”, “Cultural Sociology”, “Convergence”, “Annals of the International Communication Association”, “Computer Supported Cooperative Work”, “Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances”, “Journal of Science Communication”, “Journal of Peer Production”, “Appetite”, “Modern Italy”, “Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia”, “Polis”, “Sociologica”, “Studi Culturali” and “Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies”.